[starbase]

Man! Waiting for this other shoe to drop in the Senate next week is excruciating! I've cut back my posting just so I don't say anything too over the top.

I don't know if I want them to pass some piece of slop bill and then fight over it all summer before the House gets it, or if I want them to kill the Senate bill totally, knowing that it will have to be dealt with sometime anyway! It's torture!

[glorgau]

Like I posted a while back about the first pass at the Spector bill - it was designed to be a first try that failed. My guess is that the political classes are being surprised at the depth of the concerns that are bubbling to surface. Immigration is _the_ issue that will decide the next election nationwide. If the Republicans don't handle this right, it will mean the Senate and the House.

[Liz]

Some of our best conservative minds have suggested there will be no bill. Period.

The political climate is foreboding. Fallout from the rallies---- with Mexican flags flying, and the talk of American imperialism----indicates they were a huge turnoff.....and had a surprising effect.

The rallies succeeded in organizing Americans from both ends of the political spectrum into a unified force against amnesty and the illegal invasion.

This is a red-hot potato, and our legislators are too cowardly to take a position that would earn them nothing but scorn.